This mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign reports on a crackdown by the South African government on anti-apartheid organizations. It asks people to send messages of support to the Mass Democratic Movement, messages of protest to F.W. De Klerk, and messages to Secretary of State James Baker urging strong U.S. condemnation of the crackdown. The mailing reports on the South African security forces' raid on the home of COSATU General Secretary Jay Naidoo and the COSATU national headquarters. COSATU, South Africa's largest labor federation, is a key organization in the current anti-apartheid "Defiance Campaign." The raid is an indicator of the continued police repression and intimidation;...
This mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign reports on a crackdown by the South African government on anti-apartheid organizations. It asks people to send messages of support to the Mass Democratic Movement, messages of protest to F.W. De Klerk, and messages to Secretary of State James Baker urging strong U.S. condemnation of the crackdown. The mailing reports on the South African security forces' raid on the home of COSATU General Secretary Jay Naidoo and the COSATU national headquarters. COSATU, South Africa's largest labor federation, is a key organization in the current anti-apartheid "Defiance Campaign." The raid is an indicator of the continued police repression and intimidation; it should severely deflate any optimism that the De Klerk era will differ from that of P.W. Botha. The mailing includes a newspaper article "Anti-apartheid leaders launch nationwide protest, SA cracks down on defiance," by David Beresford.
